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Looking to going up there tomorrow morning. Sad to say but I've never caught a fish up there but I have caught a ton of crayfish! =) I have a little inflatable raft that I use to troll with. Looking at the weather wind doesn't seem to bad. I would like to target kokes but don't have downrigger but I do have dips diver. Think they will work we for them? Also where's a good spotime to go to for a little raft so that I'm a little protected from the wind. Google forecast says it's not too windy.. PM is you like thanks in advance
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i just got back fishing is not good up there right now, but the weather is great .
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Were you up there today? I was there Koke fishing.
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yes I was I left Saturday afternoon
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How was your Kokanee fishing? I ended up catching them but it took a while, at least a lot longer than this time last year. Just curious, what boat were you in?
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Ended up going on Sunday morning fished from about 7-11am. Great weather and awesome scenery! Again first time I've been there and will plan on going back this summer again. Ended up with 3 rainbows and a cutthroat all were released. I got the most hits on pink wedding ring rigged to a dipsy at about 30 ft down. My sonar picked up some schools of kokes but couldn't get them to bite. Talking to some other boaters seems like they weren't having luck getting the kokes to bite as well. Schools were down 20-40 ft.
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I've been up there a couple of times recently. I've had good luck for rainbows trolling a small dodger with an olive wooly bugger or mini bugger. Also the same dodgers with various colors of squid. I've been using short leaders 5-8" between the dodger and lure.
You don't necessarily need downriggers or lead core for the rainbows. Yesterday I was intending to fish deeper with downriggers, but had one hit and yank the line out of the clip before I could lower the weight, and another hit before I could even get the line clipped to the weight. But it may get tough later in the day and later in the year.
The kokanee are a different story. Someone here mentioned they caught a bunch with their downriggers down 12-15 feet; I didn't catch any until I starting dropping down 40-45 feet. Once I got deep enough I started catching them on the dodger/squid setup.
You can also jig vertically for cutthroat. I had success with various tube jigs in 30-50 ft of water near the bottom (find points near deeper water). It helps if you have a fish finder. But lately I've also had some tough days where fish come up, look at your lure, and just swim away. That may not be ideal this time of year.
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I was there from Friday afternoon to Saturday afternoon.i was in the boat that is on my icon. I only got 2 kokes in the boat hooked about four more , I had a lot of hits with the fish getting o9ff before I could see them , caught several small cuts no bows, I fished my riggers from 18 feet to 50 feet down . I thought it was gonna be good koke fishing I had the first one on ten minutes after I got there and regular hook ups for most of the afternoon I was on the berry side. fished the sc side Saturday morning once again hooked a koke right away then not much.
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] My boys had a blast but I was looking forward to something with a little more size or something a little tastier. In all between 7 am and 2 pm we caught 22 small rainbows and cuts and 20 of them were on the set up listed above.